Guillaume Brune
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Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, 1st Count Brune was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Portrait by Eugène Battaille after an original by Marie-Guillemine Benoist. The original, commissioned by Napoleon and executed in 1805, was lost in the fire that destroyed the Tuileries Palace in 1871.
Brune as commander of the Armée de Batavie in the Batavian Republic, by Charles Howard Hodges (c. 1799)
Marshal Brune
Brune's death, illustration by Gustave Roux
Marie-Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe was an Italian noblewoman and member of the Savoy-Carignano cadet branch of the House of Savoy. She was married at the age of 17 to Louis Alexandre
Guillaume Brune
…had been covered up by the royal authorities, and revealed that the mob responsible was led by baseless allegations that Brune was the one parading Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe' head on a pike around Paris during the September Massacres. In 1839, one year after Angélique's death, a monument to Marshal Brune was erected in his…
Portrait by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Portrait of Marie Thérèse in 1779, by Marie-Victoire Lemoine
Portrait of Marie Thérèse, by Joseph Duplessis (c. 1775)
Portrait of Marie Thérèse in 1788, by Anton Hickel at the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna